[Toybox] [PATCH] Add xxd -p and -r.

dmccunney dennis.mccunney at gmail.com
Fri Feb 19 10:11:17 PST 2016


On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:53 PM, Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> Why does posix even bother having od if nobody seems to use it?

I've used od, though not in some time.

> (Why does posix still maintain its standard documents in SCCS?
> Seriously, sccs->rcs->cvs->svn->bk->git means it's _5_ generations
> behind...)

And Gnu has CSSC (Compatibly Stupid Source Control) a GPL sccs
implementation whose intended use case is to let you move stuff *out*
of sccs and into something more modern.

Eric S. Raymond has a tool called reposurgeon intended to automate
most of the conversion when migrating to a new DVCS.  He wants to make
CVS go away.  I should point him at POSIX as someone in need of his
services.

(He also wrote a tool called SRC that is a Python wrapper around RCS
to provide a more modern UI.  He even figured out a way to get it to
support sccs for fun, but can't imagine anyone is still *using*
sccs...)

> Rob
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